do you not know?

hope is a skill

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

I LOVELOVELOVE how the Project Hail Mary soundtrack is full of choral music. Like...no matter how much the book stressed "ISN'T IT SO GREAT THAT WE EVOLVED JUST RIGHT SO THAT EVERYTHING WOULD HAPPEN JUST LIKE IT DID YEP NO OTHER EXPLANATION HERE" or how the movie just sort of half-heartedly says, "I guess believing in God is better than the alternative?" the soundtrack just keeps on saying, "The Hail Mary is a prayer. Project Hail Mary is a prayer. The only way we're getting through this is through prayer. The beauty and tenacity and connection and bravery you're seeing on the screen right now, that is a prayer at work. Prayer is what will save the world."

noone worth knowing has ever said 'this is my friend, I love them with my whole chest because they never ask for anything and are entirely self reliant and never confide in me.'

Dick was the last to be adopted, Jason became the black sheep post-resurrection, Tim made himself Robin, Damian was dropped in Gotham after ten years of being kept secret, Cass possesses killer instincts that run counter to Batman's philosophy, Duke is a meta whose parents are still alive (albeit jokerized), and Steph has zero legal connections to the Waynes. All of the batkids have reason to believe they're the only one Bruce doesn't want around and Bruce is unaware of the problem because they don't vocalize it not just out of the usual emotional constipation, but also a deep-seated fear of being proven right. In this essay, I will—

What if I just beat my phone to death with a rock???? What then?????

Today’s Friday, though.

My new late night Needtobreathe thought is that the "oohs" at the very end of "Take Me Dancing" are almost identical to the oohs in "Hurricane" - you can sing parts of the two songs layered over each other in general but it's the oohs that made me hear it. Intentional or just they like the oohs that sound like that? XD

The "Highlands" lyrics are really everything to me. Asking, "how long, how long will we be stranded on this highway, nowhere else to go? How long until our feet are planted on the Rock of Ages ever known?" all our lives until "the waking of the sadness comes knocking at my door, saying you ain't crossed the Ocean, son you ain't even seen the Shore." Ah but still "we go down with our renegade ways" and we're "trading our love for a little wild lighting" and still still still "wondering why it never soothes the pain" yet in the end, simply crying, "be my rest, be my mountain, be my never-gonna-pass-away. When I go blind, be the voice I'm hearing until we all get to see Your face in the Highlands."